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Kilis

Place in Aleppo (Halep) province. Present-day country: Turkey.

11 officials are recorded serving in Kilis, from 1869 to 1907 (AH 1286 to 1324), in 32 annual entries. The median of the 32 recorded monthly salaries is 540 kuruş. 4 officials of the collection were born here.

Officials serving
11
Annual entries1869 to 1907, AH 1286 to 1324
32
Median monthly salaryfrom 32 recorded salaries
540 kuruş
Officials born here
4
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1869/70 (AH 1286) with 1 official. Years with an annual entry: 32.
011873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 13201 in 1869/70Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Kilis
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1869/70 (AH 1286)111
1870/71 (AH 1287)101
1872/73 (AH 1289)111
1873/74 (AH 1290)101
1874/75 (AH 1291)111
1875/76 (AH 1292)101
1878 (AH 1295)111
1878/79 (AH 1296)111
1879/80 (AH 1297)101
1880/81 (AH 1298)101
1883/84 (AH 1301)111
1884/85 (AH 1302)101
1885/86 (AH 1303)101
1886/87 (AH 1304)101
1887/88 (AH 1305)101
1888/89 (AH 1306)101
1889/90 (AH 1307)101
1890/91 (AH 1308)101
1891/92 (AH 1309)101
1892/93 (AH 1310)101
1894/95 (AH 1312)111
1895/96 (AH 1313)111
1896/97 (AH 1314)101
1897/98 (AH 1315)101
1898/99 (AH 1316)111
1899/1900 (AH 1317)101
1900/01 (AH 1318)101
1901/02 (AH 1319)111
1902/03 (AH 1320)101
1903/04 (AH 1321)101
1905/06 (AH 1323)111
1906/07 (AH 1324)101

An official is counted once in a year. First recorded is the first year in which the collection has an annual entry of the official on this page. It is not a hiring date.

Monthly salary each year

The median of the 32 recorded monthly salaries is 540 kuruş, the mean 571 kuruş.
02004006008001873/74AH 12901878AH 12951882/83AH 13001887/88AH 13051892/93AH 13101897/98AH 13151902/03AH 1320540 kuruş in 1906/07Kilis, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Kilis
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1869/701800800800800600
1870/711800800800800600
1872/731760760760760550
1873/741800800800800500
1874/751700700700700535
1875/761700700700700530
18781600600600600600
1878/791600600600600600
1879/801500500500500500
1880/811500500500500500
1883/841500500500500500
1884/851500500500500500
1885/861500500500500500
1886/871500500500500500
1887/881500500500500500
1888/891500500500500500
1889/901500500500500500
1890/911500500500500500
1891/921500500500500500
1892/931500500500500500
1894/951500500500500500
1895/961600600600600500
1896/971540540540540500
1897/981540540540540500
1898/991540540540540500
1899/19001540540540540500
1900/011540540540540500
1901/021540540540540500
1902/031540540540540500
1903/041540540540540475
1905/061540540540540475
1906/071540540540540450

Salaries are nominal monthly amounts in kuruş, as assigned. The thick line is the median of each year and the thin line the mean. A year with fewer than 5 recorded salaries is drawn as an open mark and is not joined to the line.

Jobs each year

5 job titles on record. The most frequent is 3. Müdür, held by 5 officials.
3. Müdür52. Müdür2Başmuhabere Memuru2Başmemur1Muhabere Memuru11869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 13241 official

The 5 titles with most officials. A darker cell means more officials in that year.

The same numbers as a table
Officials by job title and year, Kilis
Year3. Müdür2. MüdürBaşmuhabere MemuruBaşmemurMuhabere Memuru
1869/701
1870/711
1872/731
1873/741
1874/751
1875/761
18781
1878/791
1879/801
1880/811
1883/841
1884/851
1885/861
1886/871
1887/881
1888/891
1889/901
1890/911
1891/921
1892/931
1894/951
1895/961
1896/971
1897/981
1898/991
1899/19001
1900/011
1901/021
1902/031
1903/041
1905/061
1906/071

Jobs and their officials, all years

All 5 titles. Over all years an official is counted once under each title. A title with a page of its own is a link.

Birthplaces and places of service

A line links a birthplace and a place of service. A thicker line means more officials, and the arrow head points from the birthplace to the place of service. Places far away are drawn in a small map in a corner.

All years

Seat of a province (vilayet) Seat of a sancak District (kaza)

Where the officials serving here were born
KilisAleppo (Halep)HarputBaghdad (Bağdat)DiyarbakırErgani2 officials1 official

Places where officials born here are recorded serving, with the number of officials: Aleppo (Halep) (2), Adana (1), Diyarbakır (1), Gaziantep (Antep) (1), Tripoli (Trablusşam) (1).

One row per official, one cell per recorded year

11 officials, ordered by the first year on record. A row shows in which years an official has an annual entry here and where the entries stop.
Ahmet Rıfat EfendiMehmet Ali EfendiMehmet Ali BeyMehmet Ali EfendiEsad EfendiAbdullah EfendiAli Hamit EfendiNuri Fehmi EfendiMustafa Sabri EfendiKadri EfendiAhmet Kâşif Efendi1869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 13221906/07AH 1324Post and Telegraph entry

A gap in a row is a year without an annual entry here. It does not show that the official had left. The list of officials gives the first and the last year of each.

Ottoman officials recorded here

11 officials, the one with most annual entries here first.

Officials of Kilis
OfficialYears hereAnnual entriesMain title hereKuruş a monthBirthplace
Abdullah Efendi1883 to 189310Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official500Harput
Esad Efendi1878 to 18813Başmemurchief official500 to 600Harput
Kadri Efendi1901 to 190433. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Şanlıurfa (Urfa)
Mustafa Sabri Efendi1898 to 190133. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Aleppo (Halep)
Nuri Fehmi Efendi1895 to 189833. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540 to 600Aleppo (Halep)
Ahmet Kâşif Efendi1905 to 190723. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)540Veliko Tarnovo (Tırnova)
Ahmet Rıfat Efendi1869 to 187122. Müdürsecond director (a grade of office head)800Diyarbakır
Mehmet Ali Bey1874 to 18762Muhabere Memurucommunications official (telegraph operator)700Baghdad (Bağdat)
Mehmet Ali Efendi1872 to 187422. Müdürsecond director (a grade of office head)760 to 800Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Hamit Efendi1894/9513. Müdürthird director (a grade of office head)500Isparta
Mehmet Ali Efendi18781Başmuhabere Memuruchief communications official600Ergani

Years here run from the first to the last annual entry here. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.

Officials born here

4 officials of the collection were born here. None of them is also recorded serving here. After each name: the years on record and the place with most annual entries.

  1. Ahmet Hami Efendi 1903 to 1909, Aleppo (Halep)
  2. Mehmet Zekeriya Efendi 1902 to 1906, Tripoli (Trablusşam)
  3. Ahmet Hamdi Efendi 1909/10, Adana
  4. Unnamed official (26_188; 371) 1870 to 1911, Aleppo (Halep)

Where the same officials are also recorded

Recorded here, and in a later year in
PlaceOfficials
Aleppo (Halep)3
Raqqa (Rakka)2
Hama1
Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)1
Maara1
Siverek1
Zeytinburnu1
Recorded here, and in an earlier year in
PlaceOfficials
Aleppo (Halep)6
Raqqa (Rakka)2
Darıca1
Ermenek1
Kozan1
Names, position and identifiers of Kilis
Place
Identifierl-9b36713cfc650fae
Spelling in the cataloguekilis
NameName matched
Kind of placeDistrict (kaza)
ProvinceAleppo (Halep) province
How the province was chosenthe administrative reference names this province
Sancak in the administrative referencehalep
PositionLatitude 36.716799, longitude 37.113691. Position agreed between the records and the reference
Present-day countryTurkey
Names
NameLanguageKind of nameSource
KilisEnglishPreferred nameEditor
KilisTurkishPreferred nameEditor
kilisSpelling in the recordsOther nameAnnual records

Named in works about this place

One work of the source register covers people born in or from this place: Yılmaz (2022), 73 entries, 2 probably and 0 possibly officials of this collection.

Sicili Ahval kayıtlarına göre Kilisli memurlar

MEHMET YILMAZ (2022), Thesis. The title names people born in or from this place (Kilisli).

Entries of Sicili Ahval kayıtlarına göre Kilisli memurlar
Name as printedPagesOfficial of the collection
İbrahim Recai EfendiPDF 20, 21; printed 12, 13Named in the work only
Ahmed Nazif EfendiPDF 21, 22, 23, 24, 25; printed 13, 14, 15, 16, 17Named in the work only
Selim Faik BeyPDF 25, 26; printed 17, 18Named in the work only
Ahmed Kadrî EfendiPDF 26, 27; printed 18, 19Named in the work only
Hacı Mahmud EfendiPDF 27; printed 19Named in the work only
Reşid BeyPDF 27, 28; printed 19, 20Named in the work only
Mehmed Hamdî EfendiPDF 28, 29; printed 20, 21Named in the work only
Raşid EfendiPDF 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34; printed 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26Named in the work only
Halid Nedim EfendiPDF 34, 35, 36, 37, 38; printed 26, 27, 28, 29, 30Named in the work only
Mehmed Safiyüddin BeyPDF 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44; printed 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36Named in the work only
Hasan Rıza EfendiPDF 44, 45, 46; printed 36, 37, 38Named in the work only
Hafız Âgâh EfendiPDF 46, 47, 48; printed 38, 39, 40Named in the work only
Mehmed Es’ad EfendiPDF 48, 49; printed 40, 41Named in the work only
Mehmed Lâmi EfendiPDF 49, 50; printed 41, 42Named in the work only
Fıruncı oğlı dimekle müte‘ârif Mehmed EfendiPDF 50, 51; printed 42, 43Named in the work only
Mehmed Zekeriya EfendiPDF 81; printed 73Probably Mehmet Zekeriya Efendi
Ahmed Hamdi EfendiPDF 115, 116; printed 107, 108Probably Ahmet Hamdi Efendi

56 more entries are onthe page of the work.

A probable or possible link is made by fixed rules from the name, the birthplace, the birth year and the archive reference. It is not confirmed.

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.